Group

Current PhD Students

• Qiheng Lu
• Kieran Lynch
• Haotian Tian
• Panagiotis Kranias

Past Graduate Students

• Tao Li, Ph.D. (UVA) May 2000, Principal Engineer at MediaTek.
• Xiangqian Liu, M.Sc. December 1999 (UVA), Ph.D. July 2002 (UMN), Staff Scientist at Broadcom; formerly Associate Professor at University of Louisville.
• Tao Jiang, Ph.D. August 2003 (UMN), Senior Analyst at Macquarie, Hong Kong.
• Goran Dimic, M.Sc. April 2001 (UMN), Ph.D. May 2004 (UMN), Senior Researcher and Group Leader at Institute Mihailo Pupin, Belgrade.
• Rama Budampati, M.Sc. December 2001 (UMN), Vice President, Digital Solutions at Ecolab.
• Georgios Latsoudas, M.Sc. August 2006 (TUC), Member of Technical Staff, Wind Cellular, Athens, Greece.
• Kleanthis Mokios, M.Sc. August 2006 (TUC), Lead Java Engineer at Chubb, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Alexandros Valyrakis, M.Sc. October 2007 (TUC), Staff Officer at IAMD CoE.
• Eleftherios Karipidis, Ph.D. August 2008 (TUC), Research Manager at Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Dimitrios Evangelinakis, M.Sc. July 2010 (TUC), Senior Software Engineer at u-blox, Athens, Greece.
• Ioannis Mitliagkas, M.Sc. July 2010 (TUC), Associate Professor at the University of Montreal.
• Evagelos Papalexakis, M.Sc. July 2011 (TUC), Full Professor at the University of California, Riverside.
• Evaggelia Matskani, M.Sc. July 2007 (TUC), Ph.D. June 2012 (TUC), Greek Ministry of the Interior, Informatics Division, Athens, Greece.
• Omar Mehanna, Ph.D. May 2014 (UMN), Senior Staff System Engineer at Qualcomm.
• Artem Mosesov, M.Sc. June 2014 (UMN), Senior Principal Engineer at Northrop Grumman.
• Balasubramanian Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D. May 2015 (UMN), Senior Engineer at Qualcomm.
• John Tranter, M.Sc. June 2016 (UMN), Principal Engineer at Abbott.
• Kejun Huang, Ph.D. August 2016 (UMN), Associate Professor at the University of Florida.
• Aritra Konar, Ph.D. September 2017 (UMN), Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
• Bo Yang, Ph.D. June 2019 (UMN), Staff Applied Scientist at Cruise.
• Ahmed Zamzam, Ph.D. June 2019 (UMN), Senior Manager, Electricity Markets Modeling and Analysis at TotalEnergies.
• Charilaos Kanatsoulis, Ph.D. October 2020 (UMN), Research Scientist at Stanford University.
• Nikos Kargas, Ph.D. December 2020 (UMN), Applied Scientist at Amazon.
• Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, Ph.D. July 2021 (UVA), Staff Engineer at InterDigital.
• Faisal Almutairi, Ph.D. July 2021 (UMN), Full Stack Data Scientist at Epsilon, Chicago.
• Magda Amiridi, Ph.D. December 2022 (UVA), HID Machine Learning Engineer at Apple.
• Paris Karakasis, Ph.D. December 2025 (UVA), Postdoctoral Associate at Virginia Tech.
• Spyridon Peppas, Ph.D. August 2026 (UVA), Baseband System Developer at Ericsson R&D.

Past Undergraduate Students Whose Diploma Thesis was Worth a Graduate Degree

• Efthymios Tsakonas, Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Vassilis Ntranos, Assistant Professor at University of California, San Francisco.

Past Postdocs

• Yuanyuan Tang (01/2024–09/2024), R&D Engineer at Broadcom.
• Aritra Konar (10/2017–08/2022), Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
• Cheng Qian (08/2017–08/2019), Director, AI Engineering at Pfizer.
• Mikael Sorensen (05/2018-10/2022), Instructor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Kejun Huang (09/2016–08/2018), Associate Professor at the University of Florida.
• Xiao Fu (10/2014–08/2017), Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota.
• Niranjay Ravindran (09/2013–02/2014), Senior Development Engineer at HGST, a Western Digital Company.
• Dimitri Nion (2007-2008), Systems Engineer at Bombardier Transportation, France.

Past Visitors

• Xiao Fu (CUHK)
• Cheng Qian (HIT)
• Tianyu Qiu (HKUST)
• Yunmei Shi (HIT)
• Efthymios Tsakonas (KTH)
• Panos Alevizos (TUC)